Word: verdicts
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...Abbott, Marxist, existentialist, prison murderer, author (In the Belly of the Beast) and, beginning a few weeks before Adan's killing, literary celebrity (see ESSAY). On his 38th birthday last week in Manhattan, Abbott was found guilty of manslaughter. Because he admitted that he had killed Adan, the verdict was considered a victory for the defense. Said Defense Lawyer Ivan Fisher: "When they said not guilty on murder two, I was enormously relieved. I was flying." His client, Fisher said, "was speechless, almost dazed...
...verdict of first-degree manslaughter is applicable when the killer is found to have been in the throes of "an extreme emotional disturbance." On the night he was killed last July, Adan had explained to Abbott that his tiny, bohemian café lacked a bathroom for customers. He then led the ex-con outside to show him where he could discreetly relieve himself. Yet Abbott's 24 years in violence-steeped prisons and reform schools, Fisher argued, had caused him to mistake Adan's ordinary gestures for provocation. It was a "tragic misunderstanding," Abbott claimed in court, that...
...known how much this appeal was going to cost," Joseph Schechter later complained of his $60,000 legal fees, "I probably would have gone to jail." But it was this tawdry case that inspired Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, stroking his white beard as he read the verdict to a packed courtroom, to strike down the entire NRA as unconstitutional...
...with a record of 57 previous arrests and a pickpocket who turned out to be a murder suspect wanted by police. In other cities, their impact is not so clearly evident. A police spokesman in Pasadena, assessing their performance in patrolling the Tournament of Roses Parade, summed up the verdict of many observers: "No runs, no hits and no errors." In Boston the Angels predicted that there would be 250 volunteers on patrol by the end of the year; so far there are only 60. "They attracted a lot of attention," says Paul Di Natale of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation...
Gould said he was pleased with the verdict but expects more action in the courts. The case will probably be appealed and similar laws are on the agendas of many state legislatures, he said, adding, "The Creationists are not going to give...